Some tiny little people moved into Overland Park, Kan., or at least that's what city workers think. The city doesn't know who is building the gnome homes, but they are intricate, with miniature little doors at the bottom of trees, and tables and place settings beyond the tiny welcome mats.
French paper artist Junior Fritz Jacquet created this fantastic series of weird masks made from toilet paper rolls. Inspired by the craft of origami, each mask is made from a single paper roll which is folded and squished into an expressive face.
For photographer Bob Carey and his wife Linda, a big hairy man in a pink tutu has taken on special meaning in their fight against breast cancer. When Linda was recovering from surgery, he discovered something he could do to ease the stress. He took photos of himself in odd locations wearing a pink tutu. Mr. Carey has now shot more than 110 images of himself in tutus, all for a book to raise money to help others dealing with the disease
A Maltese lawyer who has fought for the rights of boat people fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea, including victims of trauma or torture and survivors of sexual and gender based violence, sometimes in the face of great danger to herself, today won the most prestigious United Nations refugee award.
Uganda's Constitutional Court overturned key parts of the adultery law â€" which allowed married men, but not women, to have an affair.
While the Club Monaco brand was born in Canada in 1985, it changed nationalities when the Ralph Lauren group acquired it in 1999 and is now offering a Made in the U.S.A. line. The collection is sewn by artisan hands up and down the Eastern seaboard and includes a line of casual shirts, jackets, ties and trousers, all manufactured in different workshops in the United States.
22 of the largest and best-managed firms in the U.S. formed the American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care, to invest money into lifting the quality and availability of child care and elder care programs.
A Dallas police officer dressed like Superman and drove all the way to Illinois to make a seven-year-old cancer patient feel better.
In a win for consumers long overdue, cellphone companies are pledging to warn subscribers before they go over their monthly limits for calling minutes, text messages and data use. The Wireless Association said they're also promising to warn subscribers if they're paying roaming fees when they travel abroad.
A rise in orders for long-lasting goods like cars and aircraft in July eased fears that the U.S. was headed for another recession and sent US stocks up for a third straight day.
Great news for your wallet: Gas prices dropped this past month and are expected to continue their slide. The drop in crude oil prices today to below $85 a barrel further lubricated the trend downward, echoing last week's plunge below $76 a barrel. Prices at the gas pump, meanwhile, slipped to a national average of $3.58 per gallon
Belmont Abbey College will cut its tuition by $9,000 joining a new national trend, said officials at the private school in North Carolina today.
Consumer spending in the US increased in July by the largest margin in five months, after personal incomes climbed 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said today.
It still may taste "magically delicious," but Lucky Charms will soon undergo a makeover that could change the look of its yellow moons, pink hearts and green clovers.
Mobile phone service just got a little easier for Americans who want to keep the phone they have, and shop around for service providers. President Obama yesterday signed the bill from Congress to make it legal for people to unlock their cell phones, and in doing so, achieved a rare trifecta, according to the White House.
In a warming of ties between North and South Korea, a North Korean orchestra arrived in Paris today for a rare performance with a South Korean conductor. A joint-performance Wednesday with a French Philharmonic Orchestra will be the first concert by a North Korean orchestra in Europe.
Cuba announced Thursday it is allowing the purchase and sale of real estate for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes ushered in by President Raul Castro. The change follows the legalization in October of the purchase and sale of cars.
A series of funny TV ads produced by Ameriquest clearly demonstrate why it is not a good idea to judge our fellow human beings too quickly. Situations are often not what they seem. Humor makes the point so very well in these clever ads.
Check out this lead paragraph in the online Grist magazine for April 6: Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy.
Weeks after coming under fire for using excessive energy for cloud computing, Microsoft announced it will become carbon neutral across all of its operations starting July 1.